In Today's Issue: 3G iPhones don't work; developers think Google is being evil; Sun open-sources more stuff; China Unicom inflates the Chinese 3G bubble; UK MNOs not so good at ISPing; public doesn't want Be CCTV after all; Orange UK gives away Asus EEEs, makes money; UK 2.5GHz is with [...]

Telco 2.0 is running a series of depth interviews with senior people in the Telco-Media-Tech sector. To start with, to support our summer research programme on new Content Distribution business models, we caught up with Tony Rallo, CTO of Televisa, the Mexico-based media giant which is also the world's biggest [...]

We were asked to present on a panel at the private marketing innovation conference of a UK mobile carrier last week. The subject was the "Need for Speed": what are the real drivers for network capacity and speed, and thus where should an operator focus its investments? Since our answers [...]

Amygdalin may sound like a Star Wars character, but in fact it's a precursor to cyanide found in apple pips. And your daily Gala, Fuji, or Cox's Orange Pippin isn't the only fruity offering with a potentially harmful ingredient inside. The Apple iPhone might just look to some like a [...]

"exaflood" of data with bad consequences for the telecoms industry. We've got a different point of view to most observers on the matter: video doesn't 'kill the Internet', but it does kill the traditional stand-alone ISP business model. To see what's happening, though, you don't need probes in Internet backbones, [...]

As there's a change in leadership occurring at Vodafone, it's a good time to reflect on the direction of the large convoy of opcos and investments being led by the good ship Newbury. Arun Sarin has stepped out of his asbestos business suit, albeit scorched by the flames of investors [...]

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader is back in the news again with a headline $40 device price cut to US$359, with Jeff Bezos giving an interview at the annual All Things Digital soiree, and various financial analysts speculating about sales so far. The team at Telco 2.0 are huge fans [...]

In Today's Issue: Online businesses crave telco capabilities (potentially…). Motorola rearranges the deckchairs. Nokia profits up 25%, but you wouldn't want to see what went into that. Is Comes With Music a lossmaker? Nobody pays for the stuff anyway. Silverlight everywhere. And Moonlight. Is Microsoft IBM in 1993? 1,788 entries [...]

We've been delighted by the effort the speakers are putting in to their 'stimulus presentations' for the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm this week in London. One or two have had their drafts sent back covered in red ink, but most have followed the detailed briefing, looking to bring new, fresh [...]

The week that the real Music 2.0 book launches, we were having a backchannel conversation on future business models for the content industry. We think there's a strong parallel between music and telecoms - high fixed cost businesses trying to recover that value through products with zero marginal cost of [...]

We are close to finishing our latest research report, The Two-Sided Telecoms Market Opportunity, which outlines in detail how operators can achieve growth by adopting a two-sided business model. We've invested a huge amount of time and effort in sizing the opportunity for operators a.) by capability (Identity, Authentication, Security [...]

In Today's Issue: BT starts Verwaayen succession plan, ideal candidate said to be "probably male"; Brough Turner takes the separation gospel to ETech; iPlayer hits mobile; Alltel goes flatrate, hoists white flag; Yahoo! lines up to whack telcos; Sun outwits Apple over iPhone; Sony lines up to whack telcos; hackers [...]

Whilst Google profitably accumulates ever more data on their users, telcos sit and do nothing with the customer data and digital identity assets they have. Meanwhile, new technology throws open the race to monetise the relationship with the customer. In our preview of 2008 we suggested that operators should be [...]